Big Data in the Campus Landscape

This paper is a publication of the ECAR Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) Working Group. It is the third paper in a four-part series focusing on Big Data in the Campus Landscape. ECAR working groups bring together higher education IT leaders to address core technology challenges. Individuals at EDUCAUSE member institutions are invited to collaborate on projects that advance emerging technologies important to colleges and universities. ECAR-CCI helps educational institutions develop institutional strategies and plan resource deployment and helps users harness and optimize the power and capabilities of these new integrated IT tools and systems for educational and research applications in higher education.